Jim Yerman Poems

Happy Cinco de Mayo, a day to party while clad in red and white and green
To drink Coronas and eat Mexican rice with a side of refried beans.

You could drink a Margarita, or around a glass of Dos Equis your hand might be curled
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One of the joys of our daily walks is passing the same things every day.
It makes the walk more intimate knowing what to expect along the way.

You stop being an observer when you walk the same paths repeatedly
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I love the way I see the world...
So it should come as no surprise...

I wish everyone who sees the world...
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I love traditions, but we learned long ago with our blended family
We needed to look at our traditions with more objectivity.

With so many relatives to be considered and only so much time in any holiday
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In the past year I've written poems about many items we drink and eat
I've posted them to Facebook, they've even shown up in my Tweets.

Whatever I've said about other foods, today all seems so lame
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When you think about the following quote...what Emily Dickinson said,
It's ironic most of her poetry was published after she was dead

‘A word is dead when it is said, some say.
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I’m no mathematician...I don’t know Pythagoras’s theorem from that simple ratio Pi
But after spending a few days with the grandchildren I know numbers do not lie.

Yes numbers play an important role as we travel down life’s path
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The women’s Kansas State Basketball team is known as the Lady Wildcats
And it is to their resourceful ingenuity that we may all now take off our hats.

To beef up attendance for this Friday’s game..no, I am not at all mistaken
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Two stray cats went exploring out in the world one day
One found it much too boring the other bright and gay.
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Our city is golf cart friendly and now that we’re retired we thought, “Hey”
There’s a green way to get around and I can take it to work each day.”

So we drove to the golf cart showroom thinking, ‘How expensive can they be? ’
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